Greek myth-makers painted the downfall of Troy and its rulers as an archetypal illustration of ruthless conquest, deceit, crime, and punishment, and the variability of human fortunes. This book examines the major episodes in the archetypal myth—the murder of Priam, the rape of Kassandra, the reunion of Helen and Menélaos, and the escape of Aeneas—as witnessed in Archaic Greek epic, fifth-century Athenian drama, and Athenian black- and red-figure vase painting. It focuses in particular on the narrative artistry with which poets and painters balanced these episodes with one another and interwove them with other chapters in the story of Troy.